Part 1: Defining the legal text. 1. Introduction: ideational and institutional sources of law -- 2. Law and writing -- 3. Law, custom and adjudication -- Part II: Reading the law. 4. Exegesis: the attribution of authority and statutory texts -- 5. Hermeneutics: precedent and interpretation -- 6. Rhetoric: precedent and argument -- 7. Conclusion: law and modernity
